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The Facebook IPO: Marketing, hypocrisy, and arrogance
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The social media juggernaut's financial filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about Silicon Valley and Wall Street. By Allan Sloan, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE -- There's something to be said for being a fossil when it's time to look at a phenomenon like Facebook's pending stock offering. The medium is new, the...
The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban
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At our IGNITION conference last fall, Mark Cuban summed up his life in one quip: "Someone has to be the world's luckiest person!" Cuban certainly could be the world's "luckiest man," but that would discount his incredible savvy as a businessman and investor. Cuban made his fortune when he...
Google's Motorola Acquisition Is A 'Cocky' Attempt To Do Everything At Once (GOOG)
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Even within Motorola and Google, there's a complete lack of understanding as to why Google would want to buy the smartphone manufacturer, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Instead, the acquisition seems more like what we constantly hear from industry sources: a crazy attempt to be...
Looterism: The Cancerous Ethos That Is Gutting America
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For those of us who came of age during the Reagan era, the fall of the Soviet Union marked the ultimate victory of capitalism over communism. But 20 years later, capitalism is facing a much greater threat, not from communism or socialism, but from a cancerous distortion of its own...
Nasdaq Cites 'Arrogance' in Facebook Flop
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Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld said that "arrogance" and "overconfidence" among Nasdaq staffers contributed to problems with Facebook's IPO....
I’ve Seen The Future of Kids’ Entertainment, And It Belongs To Misha Lyalin
pandodaily.com
I almost walked out of the best interview I did in Russia. Misha Lyalin and I did not immediately hit it off. At all. It didn’t help that I didn’t do as much homework as I should have on the company, that I felt like a hundred year old embalmed...
Nasdaq CEO: 'Arrogance' led to Facebook IPO flop
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Robert Greifeld says Nasdaq executives put too much confidence in the assurances made by the stock exchange's technology group. [Read more]...
The digital world has invigorated publishing, not doomed it
www.guardian.co.uk
Authors need our resources, our expertise and our marketing experience now more than everYour feature article conveyed an inaccurate picture of the publishing industry experiencing a crisis of "digital storm clouds gathering overhead", and which is about to be "swamped by self-publishing...an idea whose time has come" ('No one's said...
ANALYZING ROMNEY'S JET-SKI GAFFE: Does He Have Lousy Advisors--Or Is His Own Arrogance To Blame?
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Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has written a fascinating analysis of a recent Mitt Romney campaign gaffe. The gaffe is the one in which Romney allowed himself to be photographed on a candy-apple-red jet ski driven by his beautiful wife during his opulent July 4th vacation. Given that...
T-Shirt Company Picks A Fight With Anonymous
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A French t-shirt company has brazenly picked a fight with one of the world’s fiercest hacker groups. Anonymous, known for crippling the world’s most secure websites (including the FBI’s), has vowed revenge against apparel company, Early Flicker, who registered the hacker group’s logo as their own intellectual property. “Their arrogance...
Measuring the boss from hell
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Almost everyone has experienced a boss from hell at one point or another in their careers, but how many of us could quantify just how unpleasant the experience is? Thanks to some hard-working psychologists, that's now possible—at least for some forms of unpleasantry. A team has spent four years immersed...
Angry Birds' Mighty Eagle: 'We have expanded the market for games'
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Peter Vesterbacka talks growth, entertainment brands, and why it's okay for Rovio to make mistakesThey may be familiar, but the stats around Angry Birds remain startling, starting with the franchise's 700m downloads across all platforms – a figure likely to top 1bn sometime in 2012.The original iPhone game is the biggest-selling...
'Anonymous' hackers realize intellectual property rules may have value after all [video]
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Memo to foolhardy companies: Anonymous does not like having its Intellectual Property rights violated. The Register reports that the famed hacker collective is in a state of outrage because a French company called E-Flicker has filed a copyright application for Anonymous’s official headless-man logo and slogan. “Their arrogance and ignorance...
VCs: Now as Misguided as Donald Rumsfeld
pandodaily.com
Ask any soldier how long a battle plan lasts, and he’ll tell you that everything changes as soon as the first shot is fired. Considering this rather obvious condition of combat, the idea of “precision war” screams of oxymoronic hubris. Of course, that didn’t stop Donald Rumsfeld from believing that...
Judge rejects Microsoft and Motorola motions, puts patent dispute on course for trial
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A federal judge, who last month scolded Microsoft and Motorola Mobility for hubris and arrogance in a closely watched patent case, today dismissed motions from both companies and put the dispute on track for a November trial. It’s a case that has taken on added significance with Google recently completing...
Booting Up: Yup, We’re Still Fighting About the Facebook IPO Edition
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(elitedaily.com) NASDAQ cops to “arrogance” and “overconfidence” in the lead-up to the Facebook IPO. [Wall Street Journal] When will people learn that you can’t sue Google for linking to something embarrassing? Otherwise the search engine would be worthless. [TechDirt] Teens lie about what they do on the Internet. In other...
Iran accuses Google of ‘fabricating lies’ for leaving Gulf nameless on its maps
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Iran has lashed out at yet another Internet giant, this time going after Google for what it sees as an egregious omission on Google Maps, AFP reports. The body of water separating Iran from the Arabian peninsula has been a point of contention between Iran and the Gulf nation states, who choose...
Steve Blank on small startups, big execution, and Steve Jobs
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When Steve Blank talks about entrepreneurship, people listen. When he writes a book on the subject, like his latest effort with co-author Bob Dorff titled The Startup Owner’s Manual, it’s a good bet it will be on many founders’ bookshelves. Blank co-founded the CRM software company E.piphany and the video...
iPhone Arrogance Be Damned - Android Is a Good Thing for Instagram
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When Instagram launched on Android earlier this week, it was a pretty big story. That much was to be expected. After all, the world's trendiest photo-sharing app had only existed on a single platform for the first 16 months of its existence. Despite this, it grew into one of the...
Dear Ari Emanuel: We're All Meeting On The Internet, Come Join Us
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We recently posted about Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel's ridiculous demands that Google somehow find the magic "stop piracy" button. That story is turning into something much more interesting. The next day, at the same conference, a Google exec, Susan Wojcicki, pointed out the obvious: that Emanuel doesn't know what...
PayPal's Astonishing Arrogance
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Everybody that follows the payments industry knows that there is a massive albatross that hovers over every innovation that comes to the market: PayPal. In its mind, there is no realm of payments that PayPal cannot conquer and control. The company chafes when other payment innovations, like Square or the...
7 Ways Digg Dug Its Own Grave
www.pcworld.com
Competition, arrogance are named by pundits as some of the reasons the mighty site tumbled....
5 stories to read this weekend
gigaom.com
Don’t get mad at me for not finding seven stories for you to read this weekend. I have been busy with some other stuff and as a result I have not been able to spend as much time reading as I normally do. Regardless, here is an abbreviated recommendation list....
Ari to Googlers: Let's Hug It Out, Geeks!
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Here’s an unusual new role for the legendarily pugnacious Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel: Digital peacemaker. After he challenged Google to do a lot better with stopping content piracy in an onstage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday night, the search giant’s top advertising exec called...
Here's Whitney Tilson's Massive Presentation On The Economy, Markets, And Why He Is Not Buying Apple
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Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, the co-founder of T2 Partners, said during a conference call presentation earlier this week that not investing in Apple was likely the biggest miss of his investment career and he still doesn't plan on buying the stock now. [via ValueWalk] "I didn't short Cisco...
Here's Whitney Tilson's Massive Presentation On The Economy, Markets, And Why He Is Not Buying Apple
The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial
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One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the establishment that the challenger is a real threat. That moment has certainly arrived for open access, most obviously through moves like the Research Works Act,...
Tim Cook's Stock Rises With Choice to Turn Down $75 Million Dividend
allthingsd.com
Apple CEO Tim Cook is proving himself as much a master of employee and investor relations as he is of operational efficiency. His decisions to create a charitable matching program for Apple employees and to grant a long pined for dividend to company’s shareholders have won him a lot of...
Howard Stringer departing Sony after seven years of stumbles
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FORTUNE — Will the departure of CEO Howard Stringer, whose stumbles have come to epitomize the struggles of the once-great Sony Corp., turn things around for the media-and-electronics conglomerate? It’s impossible to know, of course. Stringer’s replacement, Kazuo Hirai, has a good reputation. (Stringer will remain as chairman.) What can...
Kickstarter Becomes The Darling Of Sundance By Financing Lots Of Movies... Without Movie Studio Arrogance
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We've certainly talked about the massive growth of Kickstarter, especially in the movie space, and apparently that's being noticed at famous movie festivals like Sundance. David Carr has an article at the NY Times, in which he compares Kickstarter to a movie studio but without the arrogance of a studio....
Kickstarter Becomes The Darling Of Sundance By Financing Lots Of Movies... Without Movie Studio Arrogance
Web-Sheriff Mistakenly Targets Legal Torrent Site
torrentfreak.com
The Web-Sheriff, aka John Giacobbi, has been chasing after many torrent site owners for years. With his polite style and distinguished font use, he sets himself apart from other anti-piracy crusaders tasked with sending out DMCA takedown requests on behalf of copyright holders. The Sheriff’s resume includes big shot artists...
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